Meta will have to face the FTC’s antitrust lawsuit, which accuses the company of acquiring Instagram and WhatsApp to stifle competition.Emma Roth (The Verge)
For some reason people fleeing the sinking #Twitter / #X ship for #BlueSky don't seem to be aware of the fact that crypto bros at #BlockchainCapital bought a huge stake in the company just a few weeks ago. Like these are basically the same crypto bros who just helped #ElonMusk buy Twitter. They might even be literally the same people (I strongly suspect they are but I'm too lazy to check). Either way #BlockchainCapital was co-founded by #BrockPierce, who also brought you #Tether, AKA the company that Trump's transition team chairman manages $120 billion for. Pierce is also a friend of the #Netanyahu family.
You don't have to take my word for it. Here's the official press release: bsky.social/about/blog/10-24-2…
Moving to BlueSky is not an escape. Growing a base there is just putting in a bunch of work to create a platform that will be co-opted by crypto bros as soon as X breaks in half.
p.s. crypto bros (#a16z) also own #Substack
#crypto #cryptocurrency #bitcoin #USDT #Trump #DonaldTrump
Donald Trump shares a close bond with Scotland, with his mother being born there and him owning multiple properties in the countryEvan Tiwari (The Mary Sue)
If you think for a minute I didn't preorder this as soon as I heard about it, well...
A brilliant new Black Mirror-style sci-fi thriller by the star of Red Dwarf and Fully Charged.
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The Ghost Camera is a gripping sci-fi thriller in which a British hi-tech start-up accidentally discovers an alternative use for one of their inventions – by creating a tiny, momentary black hole in a lab, they can capture images that defy all attempts to explain them.
Morris is a laboratory janitor in Oxford and is perfectly happy with his lot.
When Morris accepts company stock as overtime pay, he never expects to be caught in the middle of an extraordinary discovery – a camera that captures images from through time, not space.
Told through Morris’s own observations, but also through clippings from newspapers, tech magazines and websites from all over the world –
The Ghost Camera offers a Black Mirror-style parable about where technology might lead us.
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While LLM output looks promising and true, there is always something wrong — and you won't find it unless you have experience in the subject area.
For carthography AI is especially bad, because nobody writes proper documentation, so there is nothing to train on.
Here are three examples of Ian's LLM photo-to-tags bridge integrated into Every Door. While opening hours detection works great, everything else... Can you spot what's wrong in each tag list?
How do I know who and when edited a place? On the editor pane header there is a clock button, which shows the object history, highlighting tag changes. Go back in time and see how OSM grew!
Thanks to George Honeywood for submitting a pull request adding that panel.
In the past couple weeks, I'm increasingly looking towards @MapComplete : its thematic editing and linear geometry tools would be very helpful when I finally get myself to survey speed limits in my area.
Every Door can do much, but not all. That's why many mappers have multiple apps on their phones: StreetComplete, Organic Maps, OsmAnd, Vespucci, Go Map... And MapComplete in a browser tab.
Far More Blue
Even after the darkest night, the sun will shine. The sea will entertain you with its relaxing noise, and the sand will reflect the light in a warm, ancient colour palette.
#Photography #Photo #MeerMittwoch #SeaWednesday #NaturePhotography #Nature #Sea #Light #Blue #Sky #Italy
It’s been a long long while since I’ve focused on my writing so I signed up at
writingmonth.org. My goal is simple - commit to writing at least 500 words/day and see where it leads me ✍️
My handle is curiousmagpie if you want to connect there. 👋
Weblog: curiousmagpie.weblog.lol/
#WritingCommunity #WordWeavers #WritersCoffeeClub #WritingMonth
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Painting of an African flute player making music. Available from USA - original or print. 37cm x 63cm / 14in x 25inArt Cameroon African Paintings
Apple Arcade has announced a whopping 15 new games arriving soon for the holiday season and beyond. Here’s what’s coming.Ryan Christoffel (9to5Mac)
Taking a break from awful things:
Scientists taught rats to drive cars. The rats quickly learned to rev the engine and take longer routes just for fun.
Bonus: Watch the researcher do a little happy leap when the rat gets into the car.
theconversation.com/im-a-neuro… #science #tech
Equipped with a rodent version of a Cybertruck, these driving rats reveal that positive experiences may sculpt the brain just as powerfully as stressful onesThe Conversation
I've changed the URL to the article on Buzzfeed, rather than the URL from Apple News.
From Buzzfeed:
Women Are Sharing The Tips And Tricks They Use To Stay Safe While Dating -
buzzfeed.com/caseyrackham/wome…
"If you live in an apartment complex and feel like someone is following you home, you shouldn't turn the lights on right away when you get inside. If you do, it can tip them off as to which exact unit you live in."Casey Rackham (BuzzFeed)
Despite rumors, the IO domain is not going away.
Find out more: ➡️ tuta.com/blog/what-happens-wit…
Great Britain is returning Chagos Islands to Mauritius. How will this affect the .io domain?Tuta
Part of the madness of this time of year includes an office chair we no longer need.
I brought it downstairs to sell or exchange or charity but ...
Seems the dog has other ideas.
This year, LibreOffice was once again a mentoring organization in the Google Summer of Code (GSoC), a global program focused on bringing more developers into free and open source software development.Ilmari Lauhakangas (The Document Foundation)
🇫🇷🇦🇿 Nuevo capítulo en las tensas relaciones entre Francia y Azerbaiyán:
En la COP29 de Bakú el presidente azerí Ilham Aliyev aprovechó su discurso para volver a atacar a Francia por su rol colonial en sus territorios de ultramar, espacialmente en Nueva Caledonia
politico.eu/article/ilham-aliy…
Ilham Aliyev also accused the European Parliament of sharing responsibility for deadly riots in New Caledonia.Zia Weise (POLITICO)
Welcome to the RB family, MultiLocale 🥳
apt.izzysoft.de/packages/io.ni…
MultiLocale enables you to add additional (or "unsupported") languages to your device's locale settings, if the OEM doesn't let you.
With joint efforts, the app's author and I got it RB. The repo here should reflect that with the next release.
#reproducibleBuilds #IzzyOnDroid
add languages to your device's localeIzzyOnDroid App Repo
Největší choreografie v historii českého fotbalu. Fanoušci Slavie se o víkendu předvedli s velkou parádou při oslavě výročí 132 let od vzniku klubu. Jejich nápaditá plachta i velká ohňostrojová show oblétla celý fotbalový svět.Petr Fantyš (iSport.blesk.cz)
Who would have expected that doing Whois on a domain name, grepping everything that looks like an e-mail address and sending there Domain Control Validation e-mails could go wrong 😀
ssl.com/blogs/ssl-com-to-depre…
Starting December 2, 2024, the WHOIS-based email domain control validation (DCV) method to obtain SSL/TLS certificates will no longer be accepted by SSL.com.SSL Corp
The music player list is very large and there are as many music players out there. Some better than others, each of them falling into categories for listenerAccessible Android
In der Rathausstraße 6 befindet sich das sogenannte "Metalab". Die Räumlichkeiten bieten allen Interessierten Platz für eigenständige Arbeit, gemeinsame Projekte und gemütlichen Tratsch. WIEN/INNERE STADT.Nathanael Peterlini (MeinBezirk.at)
hello friends I made a webring!
home.hedy.dev/posts/meta-ring/
this is also day 5 of my #100DaysToOffload 
“If more of us valued food & cheer & song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”
J.R.R. Tolkien
New blog post: Make your own Personal Hub
With the slow decay of the big social media sites and spread of userbases to different ends of the internet, it's time to make your home in the Internet.
pixelde.su/blog/make-your-own-…
With the decay of the big social media sites and spread of userbases to different ends of the internet, it's time to make your home in the Internet.pixelde.su
Black Friday is still a few weeks out, but Dell already has a handful of early deals live now, from the XPS lineup to Inspiron and Alienware gaming rigs.Kyle Kucharski (ZDNET)
Is your iPhone rebooting after being inactive? Here's why, and how it can help you.Lance Whitney (ZDNET)
Bitwarden offers secure, budget-friendly password management, while 1Password puts a premium on user experience. Here's how to decide between the two.Emily Long (ZDNET)
Six months after mounting my iPhone into the Clicks Keyboard, I'm pleased to see my biggest concerns have been resolved in the second generation accessory.Matthew Miller (ZDNET)
As reported last week, Apple’s global head of accessibility Sarah Herrlinger spoke this Tuesday at the Web Summit Lisbon 2024....Filipe Espósito (9to5Mac)
Need some inspiration on what to buy for someone who is blind or low vision? look no further than this hand gift guide for winter 2024.Tim Dixon (TIM DIXON)
Winter blue tardis
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